Is there sufficient interest for a CFC iPhone app?

What sort of features would you like to see on such a thing?

Off the top of my head I was thinking:

Fixture list with clickable links to the away grounds to show addresses, postcodes for GPS, maps etc
Results list
Leauge table
News feed (from somewhere?)
Possibility of a link through to streaming match commentary when available
Viewable match programme (or programmes from past games)
Quick links to sponsers websites to help drive revenue (might actually be an aid to getting sponsorship if they knew that we would promote thier business like this?)

Even *that* lot would require quite a bit of work, but... anyone interested?

How many fans are there with iPhones?

i would.

Same here.

Defo from over here please.

Definitely.

So far so good. Anyone else?

I would be very interested if i had an iphone

yeah, i would be interested!

Yeah and I know a few others that would be also.

News feed could come from twitter couldn't it? Someone was already saying they would be doing one this season.

I'm interested in this! Count me in!

Me too!

I'm in

So are you going to do one mate?

Planning to get an i-phone later in the year, and this would be of definite interest.

I guess so.

Better get my a**e in gear then.

I'd be interested and would be prepared to pay up to £4.99 for it if it comes with a free iPhone4.

Out of interest, how do you go about writing an iphone app? What sort of coding is it?

Once you have completed the IPhone app, is it possible to launch one on the android market?

and do a Blackberry one for me please

The coding is in an apple-specific language called Objective-C and is based on the Cocoa Touch framework. The SDK only runs on Macs, so there is no Windows-based SDK at all AFAIK.

Android and Blackberry... hmmm... be interesting but i dont have either of those devices, so they won't be anytime soon.

Unless I made the information available on a website and formatted specifically for mobile devices then you could see it easily that way? We will see.

Noooo, just do an Iphone app

I would definatly get it, when will it be available?

and price?

Make it 2 for a tenner and I'll have one too

Availability - I have no idea but hopefully not too long
Price - either free or cheap (less than a quid) depends if I have any outlay or not.

This has got me actually excited!

I'm extremely interested in such an application. This again shows the diversity of our fanbase.

Definately

Yeah, me too.

Bring it on !

Anymore news on this?

Impatient lot, eh?


ok, have a look at this



this is the news page:



and selecting a news story takes you through to the web page to read it:



Next thing is the 'Clubs' section

Happy now?

Top stuff mate, looking good.

How about a live feed, using say twitter, when there is a match on? It would only need someone at the game to update the twitter feed.

the live feed is already happening on twitter all it would need doing is linking up, i'm pretty sure it could be done.

Yeah definitely. I know the Tour De France app had something similar, shouldn't be a big job for a man of cuckoo's calibre

Any progress mate?

I'd get it! Can't wait!!

Not at present. Hopefully the next feature to be completed will be the Clubs section, with information about each club in the league.

Good stuff. Will it be done by the start of the season?

I'd fancy a Chester Iphone app

No

This is very much a spare time thing, so unfortunately not.

Its sad that the days of the company runner are past,it was so simple to give him a message and send him on his way, and give him a good bollocking if he was late back.

looking forward to seeing this in the flesh - keep up the good work pal

The Clubs tab...


the club detail screen holds the badge, the name, the address and telephone number of the club. Each club in the league is listed.


The three buttons there are map view, wikipedia link and club website link.

This last image is a mock up of the fixtures screen:

Good work, can't wait till it is finished

i had a sneaky peek at this today and it does look fantastic

i do feel it should be sold at about £2 with say more that £1 going into the club funds

do you think thats about right ??/

I know this is late notice but I'm at the CFU meeting tonight if anyone wants to see the app in the flesh. It's still a bit rough but you might like a look.

saw this at the meeting thursday with some other supporters and the feed back was great

it will be arriving shortly so keep your eye here

Is this gonna be a free app?